Dave Sorenson is an Operation and Technical Manager for Fruit Growers Supply Services in California and Peter Taverner a post harvest scientist with SARDI talk about pressure to reduce post harvest residues on fruit.

It's not a harvest unless John Ward gets a late-night phone call from a panicking grain grower. He's the last person farmers want to have to deal with when they're crops need to come off. John's a header repairer in Swan Hill and a call to him generally means a farmers' harvest is about to be delayed. He people go to extreme lengths to keep their harvesters running.

The National Irrigators Council CEO Tom Chesson says overhauling the regulatory framework for the electricity sector is the only way to stop rising power prices.
Liberal Senator Anne Ruston agrees there's a strong case for the Federal Government to lead the reform process.
The Central Irrigation Trust's CEO Gavin McMahon says continued price rises are seeing people look to options off the grid to find power. .

The table grape industry is hopeful a productive meeting in Hanoi last week, will see horticultural trade between Australian and Vietnam reopen in May. Vietnam banned imports of Australian fresh fruit and vegetables from the beginning of the year, citing concerns about fruit fly. Growers were hoping to restore trade in time to export grapes this season; that won't happen. But the Table Grape Association chief executive Jeff Scott says he's hopeful that once the current situation is resolved, it won't happen again. Read more .

22,000 tiny perch fingerling were released into the Murray River recently. It's all part of restocking for recreational fishing as Ron Woods from the Coomealla Angling Club says. Bruce Watson bred the fish at his hatchery in Narrandera.

Sustained high prices has industry groups tipping an increase in lentil plantings this year. Pulses Australia excepts that traditional lentil growing areas like the Wimmera will maintain its 20-14 plantings, with extra hectares set for the Mallee, Eyre Peninsula and southern New South Wales. Pulses Australia's Mary Raynes says fluctuations in canola prices will encourage farmers to opt for lentils instead.

Victoria's Opposition is vowing to pressure the new Labor Government to ensure it spends money from the sale of Rural Finance in the regions. The Coalition privatised the state-owned bank last year and pocketed more than $400 million, which it committed to regional infrastructure projects. The new government has this week continually refused to rule out spending the money on projects in Melbourne or major regional centres. The deputy Opposition leader, Peter Walsh, says the former government had allocated half the money in the 2014/15 budget for a major rail upgrade in the Wimmera and Mallee.